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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm really not sure we needed to grant Labubu pseudo-sentience.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having a fun time with an online grading system failing to save feedback today.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Folks are losing their actual minds about this and I haven't seen anyone make the obvious point that this is simply a cure for Odysseus' "Dad!"

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Right, the just out of frame car crash is pretty essential to the meaning of that meme.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Update: Five consecutive hours of teaching is still a lot.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Me: Patiently waiting for publication of my chapter about WoW's complicated relationship with it's own history / lore. Blizzard:

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Having one of those afternoons where writing even broad abstracts of work is like bamboo under my fingernails.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a new day. Got some work done. Time to marinate my brain in the panic-doom-snark sauce website.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone more plugged into his than me: are Aussies required to verify age on Roblox at this point?

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So Steam has rolled out age verification in Australia now. Really cool to see what Aus is regulating and what they're not. (There really is a lot of objectionable material on steam it isn't shy about recommending...)

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

All I have to say about the Ocarina of Time remake:

Scott McCloud comic panel explaining the lo-fi iconographic nature of cartoon faces. "The ability of cartoons to focus our attention on an idea is, I think, and imporant part of their special power, both in comics and in drawing generally."

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bit of a theme going on in my Steam page lately.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another great example of academia's depressing new role simply "fact checking corporate marketing"

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quick click request: It's analytics week in my writing class. If a few of you would click this link to show that Bluesky is a referrer, that'd be GREAT! Even better if you'd open a story or two. Just want to show some stats to students! wotw.netstudies.org

wotw.netstudies.org

cultureBYTE – Writing on the Web: Tech, Arts, (Pop) Culture, Sport

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Australian govt suggesting that social media companies have a "digital duty of care" over it's (younger) users. How does this square against the neoliberal shareholder theory everything else operates on? Even more contradictory than usual.

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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Open Call for Papers 2026🥰📢 Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by Dec 4, 2026, for a potential spot in our 2027 issue! More details below in this thread👇 #CallForPapers #GameStudies

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just when I thought I was out .gif

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm pretty excited to read the new book The Nerd Reich by Gil Duran. But I know once I get started it's going to consume my brain for an extended period.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attn: @chrisdeleon.bsky.social can't believe this wasn't you that made it appear in my feed!

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This sets up an interesting tension between primary/secondary school and the California State University which currently provides ChatGPT access to everyone.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sounds right up my alley but at this kind of price that curriculum is gonna stay hidden from me :(

The Hidden Curriculum of video games book prices at about $70 AUD.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just checking in from an Australian IP address.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The leopards are eating well tonight.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Was Schmitz the place in Melbourne folks were a little precious about ten years ago?

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Y'all aren't going to believe this: I waited patiently and a game I wanted on Steam went on sale.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Curry gone as well. He had a big place in my childhood and early teenage years. Loved Fern Gully, and Musketeers.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well here's a game that maybe should've happened a long time ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBg...

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LEGO Skylines | Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by LEGO Skylines

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Of all the 80 year old blondes available, I'd really have preferred different news today.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think about the big picture of this kind of research a lot: social scientists trying to "discover" the inner workings of computer software like it's the atmosphere of an alien planet. Proprietary software researched like it's physics no one knows. Except someone does know.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm increasingly convinced that money pays people who can lie. That's it. Their brains can support deceit and/or cognitive dissonance at a level mine cannot. They're paid perhaps for the mental strain of saying one thing while doing the opposite.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Interesting similarity to Zynga's whales.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Something, something "public square" something...

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Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hello Fellow Academics! Are you a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as the Picard series? The call for papers is now open for a collection I am editing! More Information on the call is here: playstorypress.org/2026/08/12/c...

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Titles that reads:
"The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Star Trek - The Next Generation"

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026

The right has its own version of "woke": "red-pilled." For some reason, it's bad to be woke, but GREAT to be red-pilled. The reason is fascism. You're always wrong, but they're always right—even if you are both doing the same thing. It's about *who has power* to decide what is morally correct.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Started @chaimg.bsky.social's Building SimCity book this afternoon. Kind of astonishing the number of pings on my interests here. Sherry Turkle, game studies, situated learning, systems theory, Fred Turner/Whole Earth... just in the first chapter.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Climate is a pattern, and the pattern has changed. = Climate Change

Graphic reading, “The difference between ‘There used to be hot summers too.’ and climate crisis.” Below is a temperature-anomaly chart showing mostly blue, cooler-than-average years in the earlier record, shifting dramatically toward sustained red, warmer-than-average years in recent decades. Occasional earlier red bars are labelled “These were hot summers,” while the sustained cluster of increasingly warm recent years is labelled “This is climate change.”

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What's your (least) favorite website with egregious ads that can be blocked by AdBlocker or whatever? I want to show an example in class and have been using the Daily Mail site.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Step one or maybe two of Dance, Dance, Revolution.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Getting a bit cranky with Corsair Cove hiding building requirements. How do I unlock like the eyepatch workshop?

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"munitions" eh? What was it that the jet piloted by Trump himself dropped on people again?

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